Deprecate real

[Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d]

On 6/30/17 6:49 AM, Stefan Koch wrote:
> On Friday, 30 June 2017 at 10:44:41 UTC, ixid wrote:
>> On Friday, 30 June 2017 at 10:26:03 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
>>> On Friday, 30 June 2017 at 10:07:44 UTC, ixid wrote:
>>>> Are there any reasons not to put real on the path to removal? The 
>>>> hardware is deprecated by both Intel and AMD and it seems like an 
>>>> unnecessary source of confusion.
>>>
>>> Don't forget that real is only fp80 on x86. On AArch64(?) it 
>>> is/should be fp128 which _is_ supported, there is also PowerPC double 
>>> double.
>>
>> Isn't it an objective of D to move away from such confusing types and 
>> have defined widths?
> 
> D does have well defined floating point types.
> float and double.
> 
> real is a special type for people who know what they are dong.
> And not to be removed.

Not agreeing with the OP, but annoyingly you are forced to deal with it 
even if you don't know, as all FP operations are promoted to real, even 
double + double. It's a constant source of confusion.

-Steve